Roy Ward

Roy Ward sometimes gets to write his own dialogue. Inbetween early roles in Shark in the Park (as a detective) and The Ugly (a nasty prison boss), Ward lived in the Netherlands; he starred in Modern Crimes, which competed at the Cannes Film Festival. After returning home, he trained as a script editor on Shortland Street — one of a variety of scripting gigs Ward has done for the show. Alongside writing and acting, he has also directed a number of plays. He writes and acts (as Reverend Lucas Greene) on the long-running Brokenwood Mysteries. Ward is ex Associate Director and Literary Manager of Auckland Theatre Company.  

I’ve always seen acting and writing as two sides of one coin. For me, one of the pleasures of screenwriting is trying to create interesting characters and good actable dialogue for actors to play with. But the biggest rewards come from actually creating the story, and setting the tone and rhythm of a script, along with all the problem-solving which has to be done along the way. Roy Ward